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24 The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Finland. Now Santa Claus is missing.
65 It is not MY fault that I never learned to accept responsibility!
82 It's bad luck to be superstitious.
120 It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
179 It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. <BR> -- Arthur Calwell
185 Life begets life. Energy begets energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. <BR> -- Sa…
201 Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out, and will tell. <BR…
265 It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them a…
278 … many are strong at the broken places. Those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good …
282 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and …
307 Never try to explain computers to a layman. It's easier to explain sex to a virgin. <BR> -- Robert …
322 It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. <BR> -- Mark Twain
326 Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person …
362 It's a shame about youth; it's wasted on the young. <BR> -- Mark Twain
391 Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss!
404 …e: In government they usually ask, "How would Clint Eastwood handle this?" It never helps get the …
429 It is a scientifically proven fact that not wearing socks helps people think in hexadecimal.
438 It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: f…
444 It's all just 1's and 0's. You just have to get them in the right order.
458It is a little like the difference between meeting a woman by candlelight... and seeing her the ne…
479 It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it eno…
486 The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover h…
573 Laughter is like changing a baby's nappy. It doesn't permanently solve any problems, but it makes t…
577 Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. <BR> -- Charles Haddo…
589 No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
600 It's often easier to obtain forgiveness than to seek permission.
644 It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. <BR> -- Scott Elledge, on his …
655 I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins …
696 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be i…
699 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. <BR> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
701 It depends upon what the meaning of the word `is' means. <BR> -- William Jefferson Clinton, August …
764 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. <BR> -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527…
778 …ike flowers? Men don't like flowers. I've been wearing a great new scent. It's called New Car Int…
779 Wife: "There's trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor." Husband: "Water in the carbur…
797 It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. <BR> -…
798 It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble. <BR> -- M…
831 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. …
866 In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the j…
869 It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. <BR> --…
870 It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it.…
871 It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races. …
875 Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the s…
907 …ritten. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the bo…
913 There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it…
931 …t atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow…
932 …on I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to piec…
996 It's a basic rule of seamanship that everybody's clothes have to be wet all the time. If there's no…
1021 The Holiday Season is here again, and there's "something special" in the air. It's the aroma being …
1026 It is at times like this that we should remember the words of President John F. Kennedy, who, in hi…
1037 …e truth is, guys don't HAVE any sensitive innermost thoughts and feelings. It's time you women kne…
1050 …ing weeks at sea during which they almost perished, discovered a new land. It turned out to be Can…
1077 It was also an Age of Exploration. In 1909, Robert E. Peary reported that he had reached the North …
1127 It's hard to avoid falling into the stereotype-toy trap. When my son, Rob, was born, my philosophy …
1157 It's always darkest before dawn. So if you're going to steal your neighbor's newspaper, that's the …
1158 Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any.
1162 It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
1163 It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
1173 Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side & a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
1181 It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched …
1186 This (preparing my tax return) is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. <BR> -…
1191 Advice is like kissing: It costs nothing and it's a pleasant thing to do. <BR> -- George Bernard Sh…
1200 The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. <BR> -- …
1253 It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude. <BR> -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952), …
1254 It will not always be summer. Build barns. <BR> -- Hesiod, (8th century B.C.), Greek poet
1255 It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. <BR> -- Mick Jagger, (194…
1259 Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad. <BR> -- P.D. East, 1921-1971), U.S. journalist
1273 Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. <BR> -- G. K…
1335 I do wish I could tell you my age but it is impossible. It keeps changing all the time. <BR> -- Gre…
1344 It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy. <BR> -- Red Smith (1…
1345 It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. <BR> -- Calvin
1390 It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not la…
1391 Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's …
1431 Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. It c…
1445 I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained …
1451 …ipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely ass…
1508 It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. <BR> -- …
1515 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. <BR> -- Ch…
1534 It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. <BR> -- Aesop (620?-560? BC), Thracian freed slave & w…
1537 I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. <BR> --…
1542 Hollywood's all right. It's the pictures that are bad. <BR> -- Orson Welles (1915-1985), U.S. actor
1546 It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. <BR> -- Groucho Marx (1…
1549 It's a city where everyone mutinies but no one deserts. <BR> -- Harry Hershfield, New York Times, 5…
1562 It is difficult not to write satire. <BR> -- Juvenal (50-130), Roman satirist
1571 It takes about a week of treatment to cure a cold, but without treatment it takes about seven days.…
1589 It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leader…
1619 It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. <BR> -- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British…
1682 The thought of suicide is a great comfort. It's helped me through many a bad night. <BR> -- Friedri…
1693 I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister…
1694 There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. <B…
1721 It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good lawyer. <BR> -- Herb Caen, U.S. jo…
1737 American beer is a lot like making love in a row boat -- It's f**king close to water! <BR> -- Eric…
1742 Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth. <BR> -- Steve A…
1808 It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves -- it is a malady caused by the…
1809 It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast -- even the English can't do it! <BR> -- J K Galbraith, (…
1822 It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that ar…
1865 It is now proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics…
1875 It's bad manners to apply cosmetics in public. It reminds people that you need them. <BR> -- P.J. O…
1890 Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon, or not all. <BR> -- Harriet Van Horne…
1913 Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing. <BR> -- James Thurber (1894-1961), U.S. humorist
1955 It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. <BR> -- Yogi Berra (1925--), U.S. base…
1965 It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen. <BR> -- Mamie Van Doren, (1931--), U.S. actress
1992 It is a cursed evil to any man to become so absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. <BR> -- Charle…
2005 It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all. <BR> -- J…
2016 It's futile to talk much about the past -- something like trying to make birth control retroactive.…
2034 It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. <BR> -- Ovid (43 B.C.-18 A.D.), Roman poet
2035 It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good lia…
2072 I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It's us. <BR> -- Konrad Lor…
2084 It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. <BR> -- Albert Einstein…
2110 It ain't bragging if you really done it. <BR> -- Dizzy Dean (1911-1974), U.S. baseball player
2128 Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made. <BR> -- Otto von Bismarck (1815-18…
2148 It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. <BR> -- Jerome K. …
2151 It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all. <BR> -- James Thurber (1894-…
2160 It is tiresome to hear education discussed, tiresome to educate, and tiresome to be educated. <BR> …
2161 It is when the gods hate a man with uncommon abhorrence that they drive him into the profession of …
2163 It's easier to graduate than to learn. <BR> -- Robert Half
2175 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. <BR> -- Robert Frost (1…
2177 It is not certain that everything is uncertain. <BR> -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pensees, 1670
2178 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the …
2179 It's a grand life, if you don't tire. <BR> -- Gaelic proverb
2234 It's the poor loser who finally loses out. <BR> -- Kin Hubbard (1868-1930), U.S. humorist
2237 It is better to have loved a small man than never to have loved a tall. <BR> -- Mary Jo Crowley, Co…
2260 It is bad luck to be superstitious. <BR> -- Andrew W. Mathis
2283 I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest …
2293 It is as hard to arrange a good marriage as it was to divide the Red Sea. <BR> -- Talmud: Sotah, 2A
2294 It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.…
2295 It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. <BR> -- Spike Milligan, (1918-2002),…
2317 Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.…
2364 It was difficult for the Angel of Death to kill everybody in the whole world, so he appointed docto…
2409 It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the by-laws are shorter, and he …
2449 Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to adm…
2481 It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. <BR> -- Alan …
2482 It's not a sin to be rich -- it's a miracle. <BR> -- W. F. Dettle
2490 That money talks/I'll not deny,/I heard it once;/It said, "Goodbye." <BR> -- Richard Armour (1906-…
2500 When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money. <BR> -- Fr…
2535 It's pretty safe to assume the contemporary BMWs will depreciate like school milk. <BR> -- Patrick …
2547 It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence whic…
2548 It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a …
2554It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more th…
2575 …ink, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly …
2587 It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is t…
2588 It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of …
2598 This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. <BR> -- Dorot…
2616 I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. <BR> -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
2654 My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. <BR> -- George Bernard…
2655 …necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their exist…
2672 It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or d…
2697 It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. <BR> -- H. L. Menc…
2698 It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were …
2699 It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. <BR> -- H. L. Menc…
2700 It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hone…
2701 It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though s…
2702 It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. <BR> -- H. L. Mencken (…
2704 …o doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beaut…
2705 …that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any o…
2716 The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief…
2764 It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1…
2783 It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. <BR> -- Osc…
2792 It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. <BR> -- Oscar W…
2793 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854…
2798 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
2811 …When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, n…
2820 …rld, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adve…
2826 …way from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, …
2827 … someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who unders…
2845 I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. <BR> -- Rita Rudn…
2848 My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and…
2874 Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. <BR> -- …
2884 Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is t…
2908 I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. <BR> …
2914 It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. <BR> -- Woody Allen …
2915 It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's ha…
2916 It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the b…
2933 It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. <BR> -- Woody Allen…
2946 It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have bee…
2947 It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at …
2959 Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. <BR> -- Sir Wins…
2965 It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. <BR> -- Sir Winston Churchill…
2968 I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…
2974 Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of th…
3015 Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a…
3016 It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. <BR> -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
3017 It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it…
3031 It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know th…
3032 It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. <BR> -- W. Somerset Maugham (187…
3033 It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be…
3034 It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aest…
3093 Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon…
3094 …gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hop…
3147 It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for t…
3148 It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Me…
3149 It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another pers…
3150 It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms its…
3151 It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own perso…
3152 Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern ar…
3329 It won't work. <BR> -- Jenkinson's Law
3384 It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. <BR> -- Murphy's Sixth …
3396 It's a simple task to make things more complex, but a complex task to make them simple. <BR> -- Mey…
3401 It works better if you plug it in. <BR> -- Sattinger's Law
3403 It's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save that matters. <BR> -- Paul's Law
3423 <BR> -- First Law of Travel It always takes longer to get there than to get back.
3474 It's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. <BR> -- Edsel Murphy
3550 It seems the only aspect of Microsoft Windows Vista which scales well is the price. <BR> -- (adapte…
3559 The nice thing about Windows is -- It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you pr…
3569 We think our software is far more secure than open-source software. It is more secure because we st…
3574 …eturn address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of car…
3579 …re, users tend to create numerous files using large amounts of file space. It has been said that t…
3587 UNIX is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are.
3588 UNIX: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile'!
3662 Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
3728 Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
3743 I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
3803 It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
3804 It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
3805 It's better to be wanted for murder that not to be wanted at all.
3806 It's better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove…
3807 It's like deja vu all over again.
3808 It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
3809 It's people that give drinking a bad name.
3810 It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
3819 Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don't complain about the draught.
3985 Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
3995 You're driving a car. It isn't a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.
4020 I have not lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere.
4033 It's not that your life is so short, it's just that you're dead for so long.
4049 It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up. <BR> --Joan Rivers
4059 It isn't the stuff we don't know. It is the stuff we know that just ain't so. <BR> --Josh Billings
4062 The Microsoft tax isn't the money you pay them. It's the time you spend coping with their wretched …
4072 It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your…
4109 …t as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epi…
4119 …alue in yourself, and you will attract people who also value those things. It works for finding jo…
4143 It was the kind of place where a state legislator could actually say, "If the English language was …
4154 …rs of peace and prosperity, and a highly entertaining sex scandal besides. It wasn't enough. Ameri…
4160 …t 6. A whole lot 7. Really, really, really! 8. I'm burning with desire. 9. It's an incessant, gnaw…
4162 …ntroduces a performance of it - a question of showing rather than telling. It's a convenient disti…
4163 It's more or less immaterial whether your Artist creates because of a liking for Deluxe Designer Un…
4170 I love acting. It is so much more real than life. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
4173 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
4182 Einstein, Newton and Pascal are playing hide and go seek. It's Einstein's turn to count so he cover…
4202 I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.
4213 What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds.